Cy Twombly: Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves deValence and viewer

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reproducing an interactive feature of the exhibition they document

he was stigmatized as a foreigner

The front of the poster reproduces Tseng Kwong Chi’s 1987 color photograph of Basquiat surrounded by paintings and sculptures in his studio on Great Jones Street in New York

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Cy Twombly: Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves deValence and viewerThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Cy Twombly: Leaving Paphos Ringed with Waves at Gagosian, Merlin Street, Athens. The paintings in the titular series from 2009 were inspired by Guy Davenports translation of a quotation from the seventh century BCE choral lyric poet Alkman. Twomblys abbreviation of the original line announces the departure from Paphos, a city sacred to the goddess Aphrodite. In Twomblys vivid large scale